A bomb threat found in a Penn High School bathroom last week is making police nervous, but not because of what the note said. Instead, police say the suspect is the same student suspended from the school several weeks ago for a similar threat. And the school's resource officer says administrators told him not to write a police report about the incident. Lt. Chris DeMeyer, Penn High School resource officer, said he was informed this week that a bomb threat had been found at the school on Dec. 8. DeMeyer said school officials, using images from surveillance cameras and testimony from witnesses, identified a junior as the suspect in the case. According to DeMeyer's report, the student was previously suspended from the school for a threat found on Oct. 29 stating the school would be bombed on Dec. 3. Earlier this month, Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp. spokeswoman Teresa Carroll said a student had been suspended and sent to an "alternative" school. This week, Carroll said the student had attended the alternative school but was allowed back at Penn after a psychological evaluation. "The four-page psychological report said that he was absolutely no threat to anyone," Carroll said. But Carroll said the student is suspended again and is expected to be expelled. DeMeyer's other worry, however, is what to think about what he says was administrators' other request: not to write a police report about the incident. DeMeyer said school officials met with the student's parents and agreed with them that a police report wouldn't be made. DeMeyer said school Principal Steve Hope and district assistant superintendent Nancy Nimtz told him not to write a police report about the bomb threat, saying it wasn't necessary. "To come to me and say we made a deal with the parents that there's not going to be a police report is asking me to not do my job," DeMeyer said. "It's asking me to commit a crime by not reporting on it." Unsure what to do about the district's request, DeMeyer said he contacted Sheriff Frank Canarecci, who told him to make the report and to send it to prosecutors for evaluation. But Carroll disputed DeMeyer's story and said school officials were merely asking whether a police report was necessary, not telling him he shouldn't write it. "They just wanted to know what the purpose was in making the report," Carroll said. "It was part of a conversation." Carroll said this latest incident is just another in the recent struggle between Penn officials and the St. Joseph County police department to understand each other's concerns. "Educators look at things one way, people in law enforcement look at them another way," Carroll said. "There's very little that's black and white, and we have to be able to discuss that." But DeMeyer and St. Joseph County police spokesman Sgt. Bill Redman said their main concern is that officers be allowed to perform their duties. According to DeMeyer's report, school officials knew about the threat for several days before he was informed, leaving him to track down witnesses nearly a week after the note was found. "From a public safety standpoint," Redman said, "we need to know that stuff, and they're not helping anyone by not getting the police involved."Staff writer Dave Stephens: dstephens@sbtinfo.com (574) 235-6209